TLP

When using the Radio Device Wizard (tlp-rdw), it is required to use NetworkManager and enabling NetworkManager-dispatcher.service.

One should also mask the service systemd-rfkill.service and socket to avoid conflicts and assure proper operation of TLP's radio device switching options.

See TLP settings for details.

For advanced battery functions, i.e. charge thresholds and recalibration, install the following package(s):

• tp_smapi – tp-smapi is needed for battery charge thresholds, recalibration and specific status output of tlp-stat
• – acpi-call is needed for battery charge thresholds and recalibration on Sandy Bridge and newer models (X220/T420, X230/T430 et al.). Use if not running kernels from official repositories.

See the TLP FAQ, section "Which external kernel module do I need for my ThinkPad?", for details.

Controlling the charge thresholds using D-Bus without root privileges is possible using and its example Qt user interface .

• tlpui-git^AUR is a GTK user interface for TLP written in Python.
• slimbookbattery^AUR is a different GTK interface that works with additional drivers like AMD and NVIDIA.

When starting TLP with the default configuration, some USB devices such as audio DACs will be powered down when running on battery due to TLP's autosuspend feature. Some devices such as keyboards and scanners are blacklisted from autosuspend by default.

You may simply want to disable USB autosuspend entirely with the following setting:

Or blacklist specific devices from being auto-suspended. See the TLP documentation on USB devices for details.

When no power supply can be detected, the setting for AC will be used on devices like desktops and embedded hardware.

You may want to force the battery (BAT) settings when using TLP on these devices to enable more power saving:

If you are running Bumblebee with NVIDIA driver, you need to disable power management for the GPU in TLP in order to make Bumblebee control the power of the GPU.

Depending on the driver(s) that you are using, blacklist one or more of them, preventing TLP from managing their power state:

Enabling runtime power management for PCI(e) bus devices while on AC may improve power saving on some laptops. This is enabled by default on battery, but not on AC. To enable on AC, set:

TLP provides several command line tools. See TLP commands.